Was just yesterday in the reptile/exotics pet store where I bought Taco to get some Reptivite (got only the small package, that's why it was already empty). and while looking around (they always have some of their own pets there, and some herps which are usually ball pythons, bearded dragons, green iguanas, leopard geckos, tortoises, and sometimes chameleons, frogs and water turtles, and "exotic mammals"*) surprisingly saw there were two dragons a bit younger than my Taco. (Usually there is one that's a bit younger, from the second clutch.)
That makes at least three - they also have one that is about 9 months older than my Taco, as I saw him the first time I visited the pet store, at that time just acquiring whether they have bearded dragons.
That make me think of how we under- or overestimate their size
I remember visiting the pet store for the first time, there was that fat guy covered in spikes (not overweight, but with a good amount of beard and pancaking) of bearded dragon in an enclosure, wow that was sooo big and I had not said "no" to adopting him right away. Climbed up his climbing background, pancaking, and a while after letting down a fat poo and my husband was a bit disgusted They opened the enclosure, the dragon came right to the front and they let me hold and pet him. I had hoped, silently, that once I get my own beardie, he'll get that big. (My husband was asking me if I rather would like a reptile that stays smaller, maybe a gecko, than "something that chunky".)
Now seeing the two younger ones, I think that probably the fat guy covered in spikes was not larger than my Taco now
I also remember when my Taco was about the size of the two ones they now raise there, I considered him as "has grown so much", "so big". Now I would call them "small, a long way to grow"
(They had also babies, 2 month old, looking healthy and well-cared, but always when I see some so small I'm a bit shocked, look so fragile. I'm honest that I was happy with the fact that I got my Taco a month older than just 2 months old and already more looking like a fence lizard then those very much round-faced, very much big-headed little ones looking like out of a Disney movie and the more critical-looking one month in between he was cared for by the pet store - despite proper setup, healthy looking dragon, I was the "very afraid person" who for some weeks was like "OMG I just hope this little guy hasn't died overnight". For no reason, I know, but I was.)
I just find it funny to some extend what we think about their size
Btw.: My husband who a year ago asked me if a reptile that stays smaller wouldn't be a better idea is now using nicknames for Taco that make him smaller "Taquito" (little Taco), "Würzelchen" (little tree root)...
*Chinchillas, ferrets, rabbits, mice, rats. Yes, also the rabbits, rats and mice are considered "exotic pets" here which is everything that's not a dog or cat.
That makes at least three - they also have one that is about 9 months older than my Taco, as I saw him the first time I visited the pet store, at that time just acquiring whether they have bearded dragons.
That make me think of how we under- or overestimate their size
I remember visiting the pet store for the first time, there was that fat guy covered in spikes (not overweight, but with a good amount of beard and pancaking) of bearded dragon in an enclosure, wow that was sooo big and I had not said "no" to adopting him right away. Climbed up his climbing background, pancaking, and a while after letting down a fat poo and my husband was a bit disgusted
They opened the enclosure, the dragon came right to the front and they let me hold and pet him. I had hoped, silently, that once I get my own beardie, he'll get that big. (My husband was asking me if I rather would like a reptile that stays smaller, maybe a gecko, than "something that chunky".)Now seeing the two younger ones, I think that probably the fat guy covered in spikes was not larger than my Taco now
I also remember when my Taco was about the size of the two ones they now raise there, I considered him as "has grown so much", "so big". Now I would call them "small, a long way to grow"
(They had also babies, 2 month old, looking healthy and well-cared, but always when I see some so small I'm a bit shocked, look so fragile. I'm honest that I was happy with the fact that I got my Taco a month older than just 2 months old and already more looking like a fence lizard then those very much round-faced, very much big-headed little ones looking like out of a Disney movie
and the more critical-looking one month in between he was cared for by the pet store - despite proper setup, healthy looking dragon, I was the "very afraid person" who for some weeks was like "OMG I just hope this little guy hasn't died overnight". For no reason, I know, but I was.)I just find it funny to some extend what we think about their size
Btw.: My husband who a year ago asked me if a reptile that stays smaller wouldn't be a better idea is now using nicknames for Taco that make him smaller "Taquito" (little Taco), "Würzelchen" (little tree root)...
*Chinchillas, ferrets, rabbits, mice, rats. Yes, also the rabbits, rats and mice are considered "exotic pets" here which is everything that's not a dog or cat.
